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Show CUTLER'S UNWORTHY WORK. "We would have thought that the friends of Gov. Cutler, who have influence with him, would have persuaded per-suaded him not to appoint two men to office who stand under direct proof of official negHgence, if nothing else, and who were rejected twice by the State Senate. We do not think a parallel to that has ever been known in this country. It is a deliberate insult by the Governor to the Senate. It is a deliberate insult by the Governor to the State. It is a piece of usurpation, usur-pation, for which there is not the slightest excuse on earth, and it is another proof that Mr. Roberts had strained relations with the truth last Sabbath, when he declared that the Mormon church was out of politics. pol-itics. ' The day of full redemption for Utah is yet a long way off. Apparently acts multiply every day to show the determination of a few gentlemen ecclesi-asts ecclesi-asts in this State to control it absolutely and make it the least American of any State in our Union. We do not believe the appointments of these men would bear the test of the courts. The Governor appoints by and with the consent of the Senate. The Senate has twice turned down these two men which, under the law as we construe it, made them ineligible for appointment to the place, and we believe were their appointments contested by any taxpayer, the court would declare their appointment, after the Senate Sen-ate had branded them as unworthy, as a perversion of the law and not permissible. V. |